성차별적 농담으로 입소문이 난 세드리크는 직장을 잃고 성차별주의와 여성 혐오로부터 벗어나기 위한 치료의 여정을 떠난다. 세드리크와 그의 여자 친구는 상황을 뒤바꿔 놓을 수수께끼의 베이비시터를 고용한다.
Set in a small, typical Belarusian village – granny Sima’s only concern is for the future of her alcoholic son, Vanya. Accompanied by her best friend, a white goat called Manya, she starts a war with her neighbor, Glasha, who happens to be the village Vodka maker…
내성적인 십 대 소녀 샤르는 아일랜드 더블린 외곽 주택 단지에서 조울증을 앓고 있는 엄마 안젤라, 다리가 불편한 할머니 리타와 함께 살고 있다. 얼굴에 화상 자국이 있는 샤르는 학교에서 수잔, 켈리 등으로부터 괴롭힘을 당한다. 어느 날, 샤르를 학교까지 태워준 안젤라가 자동차를 버려둔 채 사라진다. 실종 신고를 한 샤르는 외삼촌 아론과 함께 주변을 수색하지만 안젤라의 흔적을 찾지 못한다. 그날 밤, 샤르는 악몽에 시달리고 안젤라는 아무런 상처 없이 집으로 돌아온다. 하지만 샤르는 이전과 확연히 달라진 안젤라에게서 낯설고 수상한 존재를 느낀다. 안젤라는 샤르와 단둘이 어딘가로 가려고 하지만 그녀를 걱정하는 아론은 당분간 집에서 지내라고 당부한다. 안젤라는 리튬 약을 섞은 차를 아론에게 먹이고 샤르를 저승과 이승의 통로가 되는 강으로 데려가는데...
By approaching the process of sexual reassignment, the work mixes data and experiences, focusing on family relationships and the nuances of the feminine.
This psychological horror thriller tells the story of Penelope, a new mother who does not sleep. Tracked down by the thief of a convenience store whose mischief she witnessed, she finds refuge in an unhealthy affair with an ex-lover, leaving behind her son and her partner at the same time. But wherever she goes, she is haunted by the memory of her little sister who died in horrific circumstances... Gnawed by guilt, Penelope sinks into postpartum psychosis. Little by little, we no longer fear for Penelope, but for Penelope and what she is becoming: a threat to her child.
This student film by the award-winning Helena Třeštíková bears many of the hallmarks of her later work. Made as a graduation piece when she was at the FAMU Film and TV Academy in Prague, we see the director developing the distinctive observational style of filmmaking that she has used so effectively throughout her career. Over the course of several months, she follows a young pregnant woman as she becomes slowly acquainted with the joys and responsibilities of motherhood.
남편과 헤어진 잔은 그녀의 여섯 살짜리 딸과 함께 스페인의 마요르카섬으로 둘만의 주말 바캉스를 떠난다. 경제적으로 어려움을 겪고 있는 잔에게 이 여행은 오직 딸의 학교 숙제인 '여행지에서 학급 마스코트인 인형 키키와 함께 하는 사진 찍기'가 그 목적이다. 신용카드는 이미 한도를 초과했고, 딸을 먹일 식료품을 살 돈도 수중에 없는 잔. 그러나 그녀는 딸의 학급 학부모들과 남편에게 딸이 엄마와 해외에서 멋진 여행을 하는 것을 보여주면서, 혼자서도 딸을 잘 키우고 있음을 인정받길 원한다. 잔과 그녀의 딸은 어떻게 진정한 그들만의 바캉스를 보낼 수 있을까?
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose to be mothers? Why is care, of fundamental vital labor, presupposed as an especially appropriate task for women?
Helena, a woman in her early 40's, is obsessed with getting pregnant. After failing her last try, her neighbors get back from the hospital with their new born baby. Helena breaks in to their house when they´re gone, steals the baby monitor and starts listening to what happens next door.
Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and because she feels she has someone to love; someone who can love her in return. Everything changes when Natalia’s mother decides to move out, giving Natalia a chance to lead a “normal life.”
Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special dedication and care. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee and begins a dangerous journey that will make her fight for her survival. Seeking her freedom, Maria decides to cross the border by one of the smuggling routes between Galicia and Portugal.
In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.
A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track…
신발 하나 제대로 못 찾는 첫째 딸, 남들과 조금 다른 둘째 아들, 그리고 갓 태어나서 밤낮없이 울어대는 막내, 그리고 자신에겐 아무 관심도 없이 매일 밤 게임에 빠져 사는 남편까지, 매일 같은 육아 전쟁에 지쳐가는 ‘마를로’(샤를리즈 테론). 몸이 스무 개라도 모자란 엄마 ‘마를로’를 위해 그녀의 오빠는 야간 보모 고용을 권유한다. 아이는 엄마가 돌봐야 한다고 철석같이 믿어 왔던 ‘마를로’는 고민 끝에 야간 보모 ‘툴리’(맥켄지 데이비스)를 부르게 된다. 홀로 삼 남매 육아를 도맡아 하면서 슈퍼 맘이 되어야만 했던 ‘마를로’ 곁에서 ‘툴리’는 마치 자신의 가족처럼 그녀와 아이들을 돌봐준다. 슈퍼 보모이자 때로는 인생 친구가 되어 주는 ‘툴리’로 인해 ‘마를로’의 삶은 조금씩 변화하게 되는데…
When Luisa, 45, returns from a psychiatric clinic after a bout with severe postpartum depression, she enters a new confinement in her dazzling home, surrounded by family members and a brigade of servants who expect her struggles to remain invisible. Unable to continue playing the role of the perfect housewife, Luisa's only escape is to waltz elegantly into madness.
35년 전 갑자기 떠났던 그 날처럼, 한 통의 전화와 함께 다시 돌아와 클레어의 일상을 뒤흔든 새엄마 베아트리체. 성격부터 먹는 것, 입는 것 심지어 취미 생활까지 모든 게 다른 둘의 사이는 좀처럼 가까워지지 않는다. 하지만 베아트리체가 돌아온 진짜 이유를 알게 된 클레어는 그녀에게 조금씩 마음을 열기 시작하고, 함께 보내는 시간이 늘어갈수록 서로를 닮아가는 두 사람 사이의 특별한 우정이 시작되는데...
Being mother is the most natural thing in the world. Or so it seems. Yet the demands on women with children have rarely been as overloaded and contradictory as they are in today’s Western world. Promises of happiness are often followed by disadvantages, excessive demands and feelings of guilt. The mother has become an artificially glorified ideal, which nevertheless is often legitimized by the „nature of the woman“. We live in a time when three people could claim to be the same child’s mother: egg donors give their genes to beget children, surrogate mothers deliver babies which they give away immediately after birth, and men raise children by themselves – without a woman at their side. Hence the question arises: What makes a human being a real mother?
The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face devastating consequences as their country struggles with reproductive health policy and the politics of conservative Catholic ideologies.
